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Tom Christiansen wrote: >Do I misunderstand strict UTF-8? I thought U+FFFE was a noncharacter guaranteed >not to occur in a conformant UTF-8 stream. It's syntactically valid to encode the codepoint 0xfffe in UTF-8. However, U+fffe is a non-character, and so is forbidden in interchange of textual data. We discussed this issue a couple of months ago, in the context of PerlIO layers. We figured it was best to separate the encoding itself (UTF-8), and strictness regarding the encoding syntax, from strictness regarding which codepoints are allowed through. I haven't noticed anyone implementing the new layers that were discussed, but there was some cleanup in the existing utf8 warnings. -zeframThread Previous | Thread Next